American historyBy: “The Saltines”

IntroductionThe high tide of the Progressive Era occurred during the

1910s, as a profusion of interest groups with competing legislative proposals made the decade one of the most turbulent and exciting in U.S. history.

Reforms at the federal level included the lowering of tariffs, the introduction of the income tax, passage of antitrust laws and the Federal Reserve Act of 1913, the direct election of senators, federal child-labor laws, and constitutional amendments prohibiting the consumption of alcoholic beverages and extending the vote to women.

During the 1910s reformers at the state level enacted workmen's compensation laws and mothers' pensions (the first government-funded welfare plans for nonveterans).

Progressives

Progressives were reformers who worked to improve social and political problems, beginning in the late 1800s; Muckrakers were mostly progressives who exposed political corruption in big business through journalism in order to bring about reform.

Progressives continued

• The progressives were avid modernizers. They believed in science, technology, expertise and especially education as the grand solution to society's weaknesses.

• Progressives sought to enable the citizenry to rule more directly and circumvent political bosses. (went for a democratic government)

• They also believed family was the foundation of American society

Muckrakers

• The term Muckraker is closely associated with reform oriented journalists who wrote largely for popular magazines, continued a tradition of investigative journalism reporting, and emerged in the United States after 1900 and continued to be influential until World War 1, when through a combination of advertising boycotts, dirty tricks and patriotism, the movement, associated with the progressive era in the United States, came to an end

Muckrakers continued

• Muckrakers were basically journalists who exposed corruption and scandals

• Wrote many famous books that forced the government to reform such as “the jungle” which exposed the unsanitary conditions of how meat was being processed and sold.

• Some famous muckrakers were Upton Sinclair, Margaret Sanger and Henry Demarest Lloyd some were even jailed for their work in exposing corruption

WW1

• Started on June,28 1914 which took only one bullet that took the life of archduke franz-ferdinand and his wife sophie

• Austria Hungary declared war on Serbia so Russia mobilized its military Germany then threatened Russia with war to stop mobilizing but that didn’t stop Russia

• The united states joined in later on April 6 1917

WW1 continued

• Known as the war to end all wars but later proved to be false

• Number of military and civilian casualties totaled 35 million

• Ww1 created a lot of new technology which includes new Warfare Techniques,Railroads,Advancements in military weapons and more

Prohibition

• Prohibition in the United States was a measure designed to reduce drinking by eliminating the businesses that manufactured, distributed, and sold alcoholic beverages.

• The Eighteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution took away license to do business from the brewers, distillers, vintners, and the wholesale and retail sellers of alcoholic beverages.

• The leaders of the prohibition movement were alarmed at the drinking behavior of Americans, and they were concerned that there was a culture of drink among some sectors of the population that, with continuing immigration from Europe, was spreading.

Prohibition continued

• Prohibition didn’t start in the united states the first laws date back to 2070 BC–ca. 1600 BC in china

• The illegal bootlegging of alcohol totaled millions of dollars in revenue

• Al Capone and his gang was the biggest distributer of bootlegged alcohol

Gangsters

• Prohibition and gangsters played a huge role in Americas 1920 prohibition era

• The 18th amendment banned the sale transportation and manufacture of alcohol in America. So this meant big money in illegal distribution of alcohol

• Each city had its gangster element but Al Capone was the most famous

Gangsters continued

• Capone was making over 60 million a year on alcohol alone while he made an extra 45 million on other gangs

• Capone wasn’t loved by everyone surviving gangs in the city still wanted to see him dead so Capone drove everywhere in a armored car

• In 1931 the law finally caught up with Capone for tax evasion and he got 11 years and died of syphilis when he retired

Roaring 20’s

• The 1920s era went by such names as the Jazz Age, the Age of Intolerance, and the Age of Wonderful Nonsense

• America had survived a deadly worldwide influenza epidemic (1918).

• America feared communist, in 1920 there were estimated 150,000 anarchists or communists

Roaring 20’s continued

• Youthful flapper women provoked older people with brief skirts, bobbed hair, and cavalier use of makeup and cigarettes.

• Walt Disney would produce his first cartoon, Alice's Wonderland.

• (1925) The peoples view of Charles Darwin’s Evolution theory was changed.

Women voting rights

• In 1920, when women finally won the vote throughout the nation, Charlotte Woodward was the only participant in the 1848 Convention who was still alive to be able to vote.

• Women's Party began using more radical tactics to work for a federal suffrage amendment to the Constitution: picketing the White House, staging large suffrage marches and demonstrations, going to jail.

Women voting rights continued

• During World War 1, women took up jobs in factories to support the war, as well as taking more active roles in the war than in previous wars which helped them be able to vote.

• Now the 19th amendment states: The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any States on Account of sex.

Crash of ‘29

• The Wall Street Crash of 1929 (October 1929), also known as the Great Crash, and the Stock Market Crash of 1929, was the most devastating stock market crash in the history of the United States

• The crash was the start of the great depression that went on for 12 years which also affected all western industrialized countries.

Crash of ‘29 continued

• The market continued to fall and rise arriving at an interim bottom on November 13, 1929 with the Dow closing at 198.60.

• The market recovered for several months before crashing again, losing over 30 billion dollars.

• It would not return to the peak of September 1929 until November 1954